All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
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True silence is really endless speech.
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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
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We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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In the Heart’s cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting ‘I’ shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
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The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.
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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
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